NaNo has officially come to an end (duh, Audra, it’s been like a week, where have you been?). I’ve been here, in my chair, trying to keep up the writing habit on another project. Here’s the thing. I WON NANO! Again. It’s such a good feeling. Although my story isn’t close to being done and… Read More NaNoWriMo Check-In: After the Fact
Preptober is a pretty awesome time. For one thing, it takes place in October, one of my favorite months since I love Halloween so much. Preptober is the name given to October for those of us who take part in the yearly madness that is NaNoWriMo (short for National Novel Writing Month – we’re fond… Read More Preptober; or, the art of procrastinating by blog
I am a writer. I write. I want to be an Author. A published writer. I don’t know if everyone would agree with the distinction, but I like it. I didn’t always seriously want to be one. I mean, I dabbled in wanting to be one, all the while feverishly writing something every year, whether… Read More I Want to Be An Author
When I read or write, I am there and elsewhere. I am there, sitting or lying, reading or writing. There in my body, I am. But I am also elsewhere, and sometimes I don’t recognize myself at all. I don’t see my hands as part of me. They are ghosts, making words. The words themselves… Read More a poem: here and elsewhere
This is an assessment of all the writing I did in 2017. I got this idea from Rachel Geisel, a woman whose blog I love, and whose Writer’s DNA course was fantastic. She got the idea originally from Nicole Gulotta, so it’s a long cycle of paying-it-forward. I love when bloggers do that. My writing… Read More Annual Writing Review 2017
